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I re-wrote MSPAGER for Exchange. Hoo boy what a hack that was! A VB3 app running as a service, essentially. I don't know if you remember romeo and juliet; those were PCs pulled from pc-recycle by a co-worker to serve install images.

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My neurons are firing on "MSPAGER" in recognition, but romeo and juliet draw blanks - which is a good thing. Because if you know the infrastructure, but you weren't involved in the implementation, then there's typically a bad reason why you know how the sausage is getting made. :)

Also, I survived Bedlam DL3 (but I didn't get the t-shirt).

see https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/exchange/me-too/610... for the explanation for the Bedlam reference.

if you had a thread in MSMAIL, and cc: MSPAGER, anyone on the thread with a pager would get a page from the thread.

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